Banking, Money and International Finance
Financing California Real Estate: Spanish Missions to subprime mortgages
1st Edition
By Lynne P. Doti
June 30, 2020
California was at the epicentre of the collapse of the real estate market in 2008, which had a devastating effect on the world economy. Taking this diverse and powerful state as a case study, this book presents a financial history of the property business, from the time Spanish Missions were ...
Austrian Economics, Money and Finance
1st Edition
By Thomas Mayer
December 12, 2019
The financial crisis has exposed severe shortcomings in mainstream monetary economics and modern finance. It is surprising that these shortcomings have not led to a wider debate about the need to overhaul these theories. Instead, mainstream economists have closed ranks to defend existing theories ...
Growth Without Inequality: Reinventing Capitalism
1st Edition
By Henry K. H. Woo
December 12, 2019
Many years on after the 2007–8 financial crisis, most developed nations still find themselves in a state of weak recovery, high debt pile-up and distributive disparity. The intriguing question that we face is whether the golden days of modern capitalism are over, or if capitalism is just undergoing...
History of Financial Institutions: Essays on the history of European finance, 1800–1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Hofmann, Martin L. Müller
July 24, 2018
Globalization is not an external force but a result of concrete business decisions made by millions of entrepreneurs and managers across the world. As such, the modern corporation has completely altered the economic landscape; business and finance have shaped the international order of the modern ...
Colonial and Imperial Banking History
1st Edition
Edited
By Hubert Bonin, Nuno Valério
January 24, 2018
This book sheds new light on the role played by European banks in the economic colonization of much of the globe. Based on previously unused archival material, it examines the origins and development of imperial banking systems. Contributors utilize new developments and methodology in business ...
Alternative Banking and Financial Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Kurt von Mettenheim, Olivier Butzbach
January 20, 2016
The recent banking crisis has brought into question the business model used by most large banks. This collection of essays explores the success of ‘alternative banks’ – savings banks, cooperative banks and development banks, using case studies from around the world and discussion of both the ...